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The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self-Forgiveness
A guide to using astrology to identify your core wounds and heal them using psychological techniques, affirmations, and self-compassion
• Explains how the placement of Chiron in your birth chart identifies the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block empathy and self-forgiveness
• Offers a descriptive chapter for each of the 12 zodiac sign placements for Chiron, revealing how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually
• Provides specific steps for each sign to shift self-destructive patterns as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy
We all have experienced disappointment, sadness, rejection, or the loss of something meaningful in our lives. When you are wounded, innate animalistic instincts for self-protection kick in as a means for survival. These behavior patterns are a natural and necessary coping strategy, at first. But many dwell far too long in these patterns and separate themselves from their source of inner wisdom and intuition.
Using astrology as a diagnostic tool, Lisa Tahir reveals how to use the astrological placement of the minor planet Chiron in your birth chart to identify the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block your capacity to have self-empathy and to forgive. Coining the phrase “Chiron Effect” to describe the magnetic pull that individuals have around specific areas of vulnerability, she explains how, like a raw nerve, the placement of Chiron describes what parts of our lives we might edit or hide for fear of being rejected as well as the areas of sensitivity where we are triggered. Offering a chart and online links to allow you to determine Chiron’s placement in your chart, the author explains how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually depending on the sign and house it falls within. She outlines how to begin healing your core wounds through empathy and self-forgiveness, providing several steps for each sign placement to shift self-destructive patterns and learn to protect yourself as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy to help you anchor a new belief system.
As Lisa Tahir reveals, once identified, your personal Chiron placement can become the source of your greatest healing and empowerment. By recognizing your core wounding and learning to offer yourself empathy and forgiveness, you can finally break free from suffering, end self-sabotage, and allow your life to unfold in a new way.
• Explains how the placement of Chiron in your birth chart identifies the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block empathy and self-forgiveness
• Offers a descriptive chapter for each of the 12 zodiac sign placements for Chiron, revealing how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually
• Provides specific steps for each sign to shift self-destructive patterns as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy
We all have experienced disappointment, sadness, rejection, or the loss of something meaningful in our lives. When you are wounded, innate animalistic instincts for self-protection kick in as a means for survival. These behavior patterns are a natural and necessary coping strategy, at first. But many dwell far too long in these patterns and separate themselves from their source of inner wisdom and intuition.
Using astrology as a diagnostic tool, Lisa Tahir reveals how to use the astrological placement of the minor planet Chiron in your birth chart to identify the core wounds and unconscious patterns that block your capacity to have self-empathy and to forgive. Coining the phrase “Chiron Effect” to describe the magnetic pull that individuals have around specific areas of vulnerability, she explains how, like a raw nerve, the placement of Chiron describes what parts of our lives we might edit or hide for fear of being rejected as well as the areas of sensitivity where we are triggered. Offering a chart and online links to allow you to determine Chiron’s placement in your chart, the author explains how Chiron affects you psychologically, emotionally, sexually, spiritually, socially, financially, and intellectually depending on the sign and house it falls within. She outlines how to begin healing your core wounds through empathy and self-forgiveness, providing several steps for each sign placement to shift self-destructive patterns and learn to protect yourself as well as powerful affirmations infused with Reiki healing energy to help you anchor a new belief system.
As Lisa Tahir reveals, once identified, your personal Chiron placement can become the source of your greatest healing and empowerment. By recognizing your core wounding and learning to offer yourself empathy and forgiveness, you can finally break free from suffering, end self-sabotage, and allow your life to unfold in a new way.
224 pages, Paperback
Published November 17, 2020
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About the author
Lisa Tahir
2 books2 followersLisa Tahir is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in both California and Louisiana, with private practice office locations and residences in Los Angeles and New Orleans.
Lisa is passionately committed to working with people to heal through all of the senses of the body by utilizing: intuition, therapy, energy healing, meditation, Reiki healing, crystal healing, nutrition, sound frequencies, yoga, exercise, podcasting, writing, teaching, and speaking on topics related to psychoastrology, spirituality, emotional health, and mental well-being. She has done this work professionally since 1998.
Lisa enjoys maintaining fitness through many self-care practices and activities that range from meditation, reading, writing, glass art, running, indoor rock climbing, yoga, surfing, traveling, spending time with family, and loved ones.
She is certified in EMDR Level I, Reiki Level II, and as a Thought Coach through The Institute For Transformational Thinking.
Lisa hosts the popular weekly podcast, “All Things Therapy” found on LA Talk Radio, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRADIO, Stitcher, YouTube, and other places where podcasts are found. She is a member of the United States Press Agency with credential #US8-DEP36535.
Lisa was voted “Top Woman in Business” by New Orleans City Business. She has been published as “Top Person to Watch” by New Orleans Magazine. Tahir was published in New Orleans City Business “Paths To Excellence” for the US Patent she holds for her invention of “The CHAIR-iot,” a modified workbench for people with disabilities to blow and cast glass safely from their wheelchairs at glass studios worldwide. Lisa is a member of Toastmasters International in Los Angeles, and has received numerous “Best Speaker” awards.
Credentials
Master of Social Work, 1997
Tulane University, School of Social Work
Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling, 1994
Louisiana State University Medical Center
Lisa is passionately committed to working with people to heal through all of the senses of the body by utilizing: intuition, therapy, energy healing, meditation, Reiki healing, crystal healing, nutrition, sound frequencies, yoga, exercise, podcasting, writing, teaching, and speaking on topics related to psychoastrology, spirituality, emotional health, and mental well-being. She has done this work professionally since 1998.
Lisa enjoys maintaining fitness through many self-care practices and activities that range from meditation, reading, writing, glass art, running, indoor rock climbing, yoga, surfing, traveling, spending time with family, and loved ones.
She is certified in EMDR Level I, Reiki Level II, and as a Thought Coach through The Institute For Transformational Thinking.
Lisa hosts the popular weekly podcast, “All Things Therapy” found on LA Talk Radio, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRADIO, Stitcher, YouTube, and other places where podcasts are found. She is a member of the United States Press Agency with credential #US8-DEP36535.
Lisa was voted “Top Woman in Business” by New Orleans City Business. She has been published as “Top Person to Watch” by New Orleans Magazine. Tahir was published in New Orleans City Business “Paths To Excellence” for the US Patent she holds for her invention of “The CHAIR-iot,” a modified workbench for people with disabilities to blow and cast glass safely from their wheelchairs at glass studios worldwide. Lisa is a member of Toastmasters International in Los Angeles, and has received numerous “Best Speaker” awards.
Credentials
Master of Social Work, 1997
Tulane University, School of Social Work
Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling, 1994
Louisiana State University Medical Center
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December 12, 2020
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Before getting into the importance of Chiron (pronounced “Kyron”) in the horoscope, and specifically how non-astrologers can benefit from just knowing the sign of their natal Chiron, let’s recap the astronomy of Chiron. Originally designated an asteroid and named “2060 Chiron,” this small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbits the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs (because Chiron, the mythical being for whom the now minor planet Chiron was named, is a centaur, a being of half man-half horse). Chiron was the first of many centaur bodies to be found in our solar system. After initially being classified as an asteroid, Chiron was later seen as a comet, and now is designated 95P/Chiron, both a minor planet and a comet.
Given Chiron’s discovery in 1977, many astrology charts and many astrology books ignore Chiron altogether. Nonetheless, Chiron lives up to its name. The mythical figure Chiron, a great healer, astrologer, and respected oracle, was the tutor to many culture heroes (Greek mythic figures): Asclepius, Aristaeus, Ajax, Aeneas, Actaeon, Caeneus, Theseus, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, Telamon, Perseus, sometimes Heracles, Oileus, and in one Byzantine tradition, even Dionysus. For astrologers, though, in addition to Chiron’s acclaim as the wisest of centaurs is the story of his wounding and subsequent death. Chiron was accidentally hit in the thigh by a poisoned arrow. Since Chiron was immortal, he was grievously wounded but could not die. it was left to Heracles to arrange a bargain with Zeus to exchange Chiron's immortality for the life of Prometheus, who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transgressions. Thus in the horoscope, Chiron stands for hard-fought wisdom, usually following a deep wound indicated by Chiron’s sign, house, and aspects.
Chiron has been equated to The Hierophant card by some deck creators, an association that fits with my image of Chiron and the Hierophant in ways that saying The Hierophant equals the sign Taurus does not. You may want to give this association a try in your own readings.
It’s been more than forty years since Chiron was discovered. In that time astrologers have refined their knowledge of Chiron’s impact in the horoscope. Here, with The Chiron Effect, we have a good summation of Chiron’s effects, and they are in a form that non-astrologers (as well as astrologers) can benefit.
The author is a clinical social worker, a therapist, and uses the position of Chiron to enlighten her understanding, and her client’s, of that person’s core wounds. The first four chapters tell about Lisa Tahir’s early struggles, and contain standard advice about self-help. Tahir’s childhood and adolescent wounds resulted in her becoming a therapist and working with Chiron.
We will look at some specifics involving Chiron in Aries, which typify how Tahir treats each placement of Chiron. Chiron was in the tropical sign Aries from April 1968 until June 1976. It is currently in Aries, in a passage that began in May 2018 and lasts until June 2026. (This book lists dates for all the Chiron transits. If you were born in a month in which Chiron changed signs, look on the internet, or your app store, for free or low-cost ways to get your birthchart, complete with Chiron.) Note for non-astrologers, your “sign” in popular culture only relates to your Sun’s placement in the zodiac. Each and every planet can be in any of the 12 signs. So having the Sun in Aries does not mean that you have Chiron in Aries, you need to check the chart given at the beginning of chapter five to see where Chiron was when you were born.
Chiron in Aries has a core wound relating to one’s value and self-worth. A wounded Chiron in Aries feels like the person has no right to exist, is somehow fundamentally “wrong,” and has an over emphasized need to be self-sufficient. A healed Chiron in Aries feels loveable, worthy, and sure of one’s right to exist. The chapter on Chiron in Aries deals extensively with the Aries’s wounds and applied healing. The chapter ends with affirmations attuned to the Chiron in Aries wound. Tahir continues in similar fashion through the remaining eleven signs of the zodiac.
There are a number of things I like about this book. We will start with the clear Table of Contents, then the diagrams at the beginning of each Chiron-in-a-sign chapter summarizing the core wounds of that placement, ending these chapters with appropriate affirmations. Also of note are the always helpful index, bibliography and resources appendices.
Astrologers may object to the very short discussion of Chiron in the houses of the horoscope, but this topic is difficult for non-astrologers. Astrologers, remember Zip Dobyns’s “Zip Code” in which she equated the First House to Aries to Mars, and so forth around the chart. To apply it here, if you want to know how Chiron conjunct Mars will work out, look for clues in the Chiron in Aries chapter.
I recommend this book.
Before getting into the importance of Chiron (pronounced “Kyron”) in the horoscope, and specifically how non-astrologers can benefit from just knowing the sign of their natal Chiron, let’s recap the astronomy of Chiron. Originally designated an asteroid and named “2060 Chiron,” this small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbits the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs (because Chiron, the mythical being for whom the now minor planet Chiron was named, is a centaur, a being of half man-half horse). Chiron was the first of many centaur bodies to be found in our solar system. After initially being classified as an asteroid, Chiron was later seen as a comet, and now is designated 95P/Chiron, both a minor planet and a comet.
Given Chiron’s discovery in 1977, many astrology charts and many astrology books ignore Chiron altogether. Nonetheless, Chiron lives up to its name. The mythical figure Chiron, a great healer, astrologer, and respected oracle, was the tutor to many culture heroes (Greek mythic figures): Asclepius, Aristaeus, Ajax, Aeneas, Actaeon, Caeneus, Theseus, Achilles, Jason, Peleus, Telamon, Perseus, sometimes Heracles, Oileus, and in one Byzantine tradition, even Dionysus. For astrologers, though, in addition to Chiron’s acclaim as the wisest of centaurs is the story of his wounding and subsequent death. Chiron was accidentally hit in the thigh by a poisoned arrow. Since Chiron was immortal, he was grievously wounded but could not die. it was left to Heracles to arrange a bargain with Zeus to exchange Chiron's immortality for the life of Prometheus, who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transgressions. Thus in the horoscope, Chiron stands for hard-fought wisdom, usually following a deep wound indicated by Chiron’s sign, house, and aspects.
Chiron has been equated to The Hierophant card by some deck creators, an association that fits with my image of Chiron and the Hierophant in ways that saying The Hierophant equals the sign Taurus does not. You may want to give this association a try in your own readings.
It’s been more than forty years since Chiron was discovered. In that time astrologers have refined their knowledge of Chiron’s impact in the horoscope. Here, with The Chiron Effect, we have a good summation of Chiron’s effects, and they are in a form that non-astrologers (as well as astrologers) can benefit.
The author is a clinical social worker, a therapist, and uses the position of Chiron to enlighten her understanding, and her client’s, of that person’s core wounds. The first four chapters tell about Lisa Tahir’s early struggles, and contain standard advice about self-help. Tahir’s childhood and adolescent wounds resulted in her becoming a therapist and working with Chiron.
We will look at some specifics involving Chiron in Aries, which typify how Tahir treats each placement of Chiron. Chiron was in the tropical sign Aries from April 1968 until June 1976. It is currently in Aries, in a passage that began in May 2018 and lasts until June 2026. (This book lists dates for all the Chiron transits. If you were born in a month in which Chiron changed signs, look on the internet, or your app store, for free or low-cost ways to get your birthchart, complete with Chiron.) Note for non-astrologers, your “sign” in popular culture only relates to your Sun’s placement in the zodiac. Each and every planet can be in any of the 12 signs. So having the Sun in Aries does not mean that you have Chiron in Aries, you need to check the chart given at the beginning of chapter five to see where Chiron was when you were born.
Chiron in Aries has a core wound relating to one’s value and self-worth. A wounded Chiron in Aries feels like the person has no right to exist, is somehow fundamentally “wrong,” and has an over emphasized need to be self-sufficient. A healed Chiron in Aries feels loveable, worthy, and sure of one’s right to exist. The chapter on Chiron in Aries deals extensively with the Aries’s wounds and applied healing. The chapter ends with affirmations attuned to the Chiron in Aries wound. Tahir continues in similar fashion through the remaining eleven signs of the zodiac.
There are a number of things I like about this book. We will start with the clear Table of Contents, then the diagrams at the beginning of each Chiron-in-a-sign chapter summarizing the core wounds of that placement, ending these chapters with appropriate affirmations. Also of note are the always helpful index, bibliography and resources appendices.
Astrologers may object to the very short discussion of Chiron in the houses of the horoscope, but this topic is difficult for non-astrologers. Astrologers, remember Zip Dobyns’s “Zip Code” in which she equated the First House to Aries to Mars, and so forth around the chart. To apply it here, if you want to know how Chiron conjunct Mars will work out, look for clues in the Chiron in Aries chapter.
I recommend this book.
August 23, 2023
This was a really good guide, it was very thorough in its explanation of Chiron's placement through the signs. However it was missing the placement through the houses, which is incredibly important for thoroughly understanding the full interpretation of Chiron in your chart. I would have cut it to 3 stars, because of the missing house placement, but so much was elaborated on sign placement that it really deserved the 4th star.
August 28, 2020
I study astrology and enjoy psychology, so this book sounded like the right blend. Unfortunately it didn't resonate with me at all. I found myself wading my way through endless chapters about love and forgiveness, mindfullness, meditation and chakra's before eventually arriving at Chiron in the zodiac signs and astrological houses.
By then I had already skipped most of the pages.
Both parts are interesting and have something to say, but it felt like two books in one with Chiron barely scratching the surface.
Thank you Netgalley and Inner Traditions for the ARC.
By then I had already skipped most of the pages.
Both parts are interesting and have something to say, but it felt like two books in one with Chiron barely scratching the surface.
Thank you Netgalley and Inner Traditions for the ARC.
March 29, 2023
Great Book!
Very easy read. This book was very helpful to understand myself much more. Now I know why I have gone through things in my life and how to change the negative to positive and have a greater chance at a brighter future!
Very easy read. This book was very helpful to understand myself much more. Now I know why I have gone through things in my life and how to change the negative to positive and have a greater chance at a brighter future!
August 17, 2020
What a great dive into Chiron. This book gives you amazing information to explore your inner wounds and how to heal. I enjoyed the journal prompts scattered throughout the book as well as Lisa's vulnerability by giving us pieces of her own journey. She dedicates chapters throughout the book to Chiron in the individual signs, some chapters give you more information than others due to different types of wounds you need to address and completes the chapter with action items and affirmations. The affirmations were probably my favorite part of completing each sign.
Chiron can be a tricky point to look at in your chart, I found the introduction and explanations to psychoastrology to be passionate from Lisa and well educated. I did not feel confused on any information I was given.
Thank you Lisa Tahir, Inner Traditions, Bear & Co, and NetGalley for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
Chiron can be a tricky point to look at in your chart, I found the introduction and explanations to psychoastrology to be passionate from Lisa and well educated. I did not feel confused on any information I was given.
Thank you Lisa Tahir, Inner Traditions, Bear & Co, and NetGalley for this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
May 19, 2025
If you’re familiar with new age stuff like mindfulness, you can skip to chapter 5 @ 36% through, to where it starts to focus on the Astrology part of the book.
This book contains some useful information, but one star is removed because it's padded with repetitive stuff about healing, which wasn't necessary, and one more star because it only contains house and sign information, leaving out aspects and other useful information.
That information can be found in the books, "Chiron: Transforming Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets", by Barbara Hand Clow, and "Chiron: Healing Body & Soul", by Martin Lass.
This book contains some useful information, but one star is removed because it's padded with repetitive stuff about healing, which wasn't necessary, and one more star because it only contains house and sign information, leaving out aspects and other useful information.
That information can be found in the books, "Chiron: Transforming Bridge Between the Inner & Outer Planets", by Barbara Hand Clow, and "Chiron: Healing Body & Soul", by Martin Lass.
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July 25, 2022I didn't fish the book. This book is distinctively psychological astrology, but very self-help oriented. It gave reference to systems like chakras and Reiki, which I don't think are appropriate for Astrology (though they're was surprisingly little astrology in this book to me!) It didn't offer more than can be googled.
I think it especially distasteful for an energy healer to write that they have infused a book with healing energy.
All that said, hopefully some people find help with this book.
I think it especially distasteful for an energy healer to write that they have infused a book with healing energy.
All that said, hopefully some people find help with this book.
November 29, 2021
I need to find more astrology books like this one. Most beginner astrology books focus on the whole chart and can be quite overwhelming when it comes to finding out how to apply it to one's life. Tahir makes Chiron in astrology accessible to people who only know how to scratch the surface of astrology by focusing on one aspect of one's natal chart to grow and heal with guidance on taking actionable steps.
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